If given a chance to go back time, whether to change something or to relive your childhood, what would be the specific moment you come back to, and what would you do differently, if any?
I'd go back to the 14th century but before the plague hit. Sure, life wasn't easy back then but it sure as hell was much simpler. Oh wait, it has to be within my lifetime? In that case I'd go back to the 90s, those were good times.
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I'd refuse contact from the federal agent who wanted to trade cp with me back in the day. Lol what a dumbass I was. Low hanging fruit.
Too many moments to count that I have regrets about in my youth. I was not a very confident boy and I often responded to new situations with inaction and probably missed out on a lot of fun. If I had been a little more brave, I could've gotten up to a little more hi-jinks as a boy, rather than spending too many hours in front of the goddamn TV. :sadno
Quote from: on the rocks on 30 September, 2025, 00:38:50Too many moments to count that I have regrets about in my youth. I was not a very confident boy and I often responded to new situations with inaction and probably missed out on a lot of fun. If I had been a little more brave, I could've gotten up to a little more hi-jinks as a boy, rather than spending too many hours in front of the goddamn TV. :sadno
And missed all those Three Stooges and Little Rascals reruns? Heaven forbid!
I think I only started watching Three Stooges as a kid because the opening credits made it seem like it was going to be a cartoon. But that's pretty much what it is; a live action cartoon. :P
My youth was the golden age of Nickelodeon and their whole "kids rule" ethos they brought to their programming in the 90's. I was there when their first three original cartoons premiered: Rugrats, Doug, and Ren & Stimpy.
Double Dare, Salute Your Shorts, Pete & Pete, Rocko's Modern Life, Hey Arnold... I was plugged in to it all. Including All That; the sketch show that gave the world Keenan Thompson.
I exited that demographic before they launched the Spongebob juggernaut onto the world.
Quote from: on the rocks on 30 September, 2025, 23:41:59My youth was the golden age of Nickelodeon and their whole "kids rule" ethos they brought to their programming in the 90's. I was there when their first three original cartoons premiered: Rugrats, Doug, and Ren & Stimpy.
Right about the age of 12, I was quite turned on by Rugrats. A bunch of intelligent characters running around in diapers? So hot. I loved that cartoon. I've always loved shows where the characters act way more mature and intelligent than their age.
I love that the producers of The Little Rascals pandered to the pedos of the era by dressing little Darla in those micro dresses.
Quote from: on the rocks on 30 September, 2025, 23:41:59.. brought to their programming in the 90's. I was there when their first three original cartoons premiered: Rugrats, Doug, and Ren & Stimpy.
Double Dare, Salute Your Shorts, Pete & Pete, Rocko's Modern Life, Hey Arnold... ...
That was all beyond my time. But "Salute Your Shorts"? For a underage girl lover, that has a lot of embedded innuendo in the title, lol. I only easily recognize the first three.
Salute Your Shorts was an early kiddy sitcom set at a summer camp. The name comes from a prank where you steal someone's underpants and run them up the flagpole. Having not seen an episode in 30 years, I remember it as an ensemble show where most of the episodes pivoted on either breaking the camp rules to do something fun, or some kind of competition against other campers or a rival camp. Or maybe some kind of scheme to make a quick buck.
The kid who played John Conner's friend in Terminator 2 was one of the main characters on Salute Your Shorts. Had the same hair and everything.
LOL, well that took none of the sexuality out of it at all. Sadly, but likely, it was a boys camp :)
For some reason if it had been girls, well even then the anti's would probably have been screaming bloody murder.
Oh it was a coed summer camp. But I don't think the show ever featured one of the girls as a target of the flagpole prank. :think
I do seem to recall one of camp rules that was sometimes humorously broken was "no boys in the girls' cabins" and vice versa.
On the subject of 90's Nick, there was this show called The Secret World of Alex Mack. It was about a teen girl whose exposure to some weird chemical gave her various super powers that she felt compelled to keep hidden from everyone but her best friend. The friend was your classic non-threatening nerd boy, as I recall.
Anyway, one of her powers is the ability to turn into a liquid; sort of like The Founders on Star Trek DS9. When she discovers this power, there's a scene etched in my mind because when she re-materializes, her clothes are all gone and nerd friend has to fetch her some threads. They give us some classic shoulders-up and knees-down shots and invite the viewer to fill in the blanks. :unsure
As a newly sexually aware middle school boy at the time, I did my best to do just that. [.
Quote from: on the rocks on 30 September, 2025, 00:38:50Too many moments to count that I have regrets about in my youth. I was not a very confident boy and I often responded to new situations with inaction and probably missed out on a lot of fun. If I had been a little more brave, I could've gotten up to a little more hi-jinks as a boy, rather than spending too many hours in front of the goddamn TV. :sadno
Same here, sadly.
I just miss when the internet was largely unregulated and you could find on-top stuff almost anywhere. I wasn't alive but there was a time in the 70s and 80s were society almost accepted pedophilia with the sexual liberation movement in Europe.
Quote from: LarrySexton on 09 October, 2025, 21:06:36I just miss when the internet was largely unregulated and you could find on-top stuff almost anywhere. I wasn't alive but there was a time in the 70s and 80s were society almost accepted pedophilia with the sexual liberation movement in Europe.
I very much disagree. Everything was more exposed in the early internet. It gave you a false sense of security. Your main protection was just that you are a small fish in a big pond. Today, you have far more protection, a much wider selection of material, with much higher quality. Yes, it takes more work, but it is definitely worth it.
Sure, it was nice being able to buy kiddie porn from a porn shop in 70s Europe, but that's where the acceptance ends. Go back another hundred years, and you could marry a child pretty much anywhere in the world. It was frowned upon, but accepted. I don't feel like 70s Europe was the pinnacle of pedophilia acceptance, although clearly better than today.
Showing my age, pre internet there was BBS systems, and they never completely died out. There was even systems where you could access Usenet through BBS boards. Unsurprisingly, BBS boards were often rampant with porn. Plenty of clean boards on different subject matters, but many other would at least have a porn section, or just be dedicated to it. And even subscription systems.
Understand, your downloading 640x480 images and such, on the likes of 14k modems. My experience in that space was it was easy to find all types of adult HC porn. For the young ones it seemed to primarily be underage nudity much more than anything else. Much like Usenet later, until HC porn exploded on there and then the usual repercussions eventually kicked in.
I'm sure there were CP bust around BBS systems, but it definitely didn't usually make mainstream news that I remember. And these are just hobbyist with an extra PC in their house and a few extra phone lines. Definitely one way to build a collection by accepting uploads.
I even knew a guy who was a regular BBS user who met a very young teenager on a BBS system through chat, and went on a date with her. He was in his late teens or early twenties. Sadly, he wouldn't spill any detail on the date or any further activity. I do remember she completely knew how old he was, and the fact he had a car was a big deal to her. LOL. Kids.
Quote from: TooLittleTime on 10 October, 2025, 18:29:47I do remember she completely knew how old he was, and the fact he had a car was a big deal to her. LOL. Kids.
Damn rideshare killed that angle for dudes looking to score dates with jailbait. :P
A tricked out van and a bag of weed used to be the way to go.
Quote from: OneLove on 11 October, 2025, 11:04:32A tricked out van and a bag of weed used to be the way to go.
"Gas, grass, or ass; no one rides for free!" :rofl :rofl
Quote from: on the rocks on 12 October, 2025, 13:23:38Quote from: OneLove on 11 October, 2025, 11:04:32A tricked out van and a bag of weed used to be the way to go.
"Gas, grass, or ass; no one rides for free!" :rofl :rofl
OMG I forgot all about that. Now that's a principle worth fighting for.
Quote from: OneLove on 11 October, 2025, 11:04:32A tricked out van and a bag of weed used to be the way to go.
Like pedo's at playgrounds, the van thing certainly had its basis in reality. Of course, one of the young ladies I knew had a "boyfriend" who had a van and she would sneak out and he would pick her up in his van, where interesting things would happen, and then return her near her home. In one of those straight out of a movie moments, she was fine with this until she went in one night and saw a video recorder in the corner of the van set up on a small tripod to record their fun. She tolerated this for awhile, but it was eventually the trigger she needed to recognize what the relationship was really about and she just stopped going out to meet him.
Unfortunately (for me) she didn't know or want to say how old he was, though I definitely got the impression he was more a young man in his early twenties than an older teen. She herself was an early teen.
I suppose the van thing got traction from many similar stories decades ago :)
Hey at least he was out in the open about the recorder 😆
And now has some golden memories
Quote from: OneLove on 15 October, 2025, 11:12:10Hey at least he was out in the open about the recorder 😆
And now has some golden memories
Yes, I also always have had some level of jealousy when I hear something like this from a teen or adult. Regardless of my own experiences :)